Carefree times by Olga Sępkowska

I guess it has happened to everyone at a young age to get a little riled up by an adult. When something unexpected happened during a fun game. A vase fell down, a flower overturned or a window pane didn't magically disappear when a ball flew towards it. The photo of this little girl reminded me of those carefree moments, so I decided to choose her as the focal point of my creation, with some serious, grown-up people behind her.

I decided to use broken sunglasses in the project. I covered them with black gesso, then added some colour and finally put some crackle paste on them to get a nice effect. They also fit the concept of mischief this young lady could be involved with. 

I covered the cardboard and the casts with black gesso. This way I could easily paint and splash water on the embellishments without worrying about damaging it. I chose metallic paints, liquid acrylics and rust paste. Everything together gave a nice, old-fashioned effect.

I warmly invite you to watch how my project was created:

Hugs! 

Olga

Products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place online store:

Finnabair Winter 2021 reveal - part 2

Hello friends,

I hope you are as excited as me!! Today we are showing the second part of my new products. Yay! So without any preliminaries, here they are :)

My Art Daily line has new family members - Vellum Journaling Pads and new designs of Metal Clips.

The pads come in handy format 11x18,5 cm (4,5x7’’). There are 8 designs in each pad (4 sheets of each) which makes total 32 pages in each Journaling Pad. Printed designs are black, but the pages come in two colours: pearl and golden (2 pages of each per each design). They are semi-transparent and the designs are much smaller than in Tissue Papers (that you probably know very well). Perfect for art-journaling but also for small projects as ATC, tags or altering small objects.

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Art Daily - Antique Clips

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Art Daily - Ornate Clips

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Art Daily - Rusty Clips

Vellum Journaling Pads

And now the products, that are totally new in Finnabair products range - chipboard pieces. This is their debut and I hope you will like them as much as my other products. Creating mixed-media compositions with metal elements (Mechanicals), moulds and my media I quite often would be happy to add chipboard pieces, which are absolutely great for creating volume. So here they are! Six totally new sets in two sizes: Steampunk Blossoms, Machine Floral Decors, Steampunk Flowers (12,5x20cm/ 5x8'') and Steampunk Wreath, Mechanical Thistle, Mechanical Flourishes (20x20cm/ 8x8'').

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Machine Floral Decors

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Mechanical Flourishes

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Mechanical Thistle

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Steampunk Blooms

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Steampunk Flowers

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Steampunk Wreath

In this release you can find also many new designs of Mechanicals. Most of them are nature inspired and they have rusty or patina finish. There are six new designs: Desert Flowers, Metal Blooms, Grungy Succulents, Grungy Gears, Scrapyard Dragonflies, Rusty Monstera.

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Desert Flowers

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Grungy Gears

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Metal Blooms

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Grungy Succulents

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Rusty Monstera

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Scrapyard Dragonflies

And last but not least - new moulds. There are 10 new designs,

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Grungy Frames

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Queens of Steam

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Rusty Pipeline

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Vintage Portraits

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Wings and Bones

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Birds and Bats

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Skulls and Bones

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Nocturnal Elements

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Machine Parts

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Large Gears

Tomorrow on our blog you will see new Art Recipe but since Monday we will  be publishing inspiration from our team, showing you, what you can use all these new products for. We will share tips, techniques joy of creation. So stay tuned and do not forget to subscribe to our YT channel and turn on the notifications (bell in the upper right corner) from our IG feed.

Sending love and hugs to you all

Finn